Barrel or keg.



PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908. SCJ. EDMISTON. I BARREL OR KEG.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28,1902.

NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATES fPatented August 18, 1903.

i PATENT OFFICE.

BARREL OR KEG.

{:"JEECIZEICA'JJION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,830, dated August 18, 1903.

Application filed November 28, 1902. Serial No. 132,992. (No model.)

To LtZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL JOSEPH ED- MISTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greenwich, in the county of Washington and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrels or Kegs, of which the followingis a specification.

The invention herein is directed to the production of a barrel or keg of the fibrous-sheet type; and the objects of the improvement are to provide for removing one of its heads without disturbing the hoops, for greater strength and durability at the ends of the barrel and of the connection of the fibrous body with the heads and the latter with the hoops, to cheapen the article, and to secure the head by hooks fastened to the outside hoops; and in the claims the precise novelty of construction will be set out.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 represents in perspective a keg embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a top View with the head removed. Fig. 4 shows, enlarged, the securing of the removable head by hooks secured to the outside hoops. Fig. 5 shows, enlarged, the securing of the fixed head.

The body is of a single sheet of fibrous material, preferably of cheap and strong and tough leather-board lapped at its edges in forming the body. One end is strengthened by a. hoop 1, fastened on the inner side of the barrel-sheet flush with its edge, and a pair of hoops 2, fastened on the outer side flush with the edge of the barrel-sheet, the inner andthe outer hoops being nailed together to the sheet, and upon the inner hoop the head 3 is seated and bound by thehoop, so that it cannot fall out.

In upsetting the barrel the edge of the barrel-sheet is protected from being crushed or broken by the inner and the outer hoops.

The removable head 4: is seated on a hoop 5, fastened on the inner side of the barrelsheet flush with its edge, upon which the head is also seated, as in Figs. 2 and 4, the head being sufficiently thick to be circumferentially recessed to,form a shoulder 6, which abuts against the inner side of the inner hoop 5, so that the head is seated within and against the inner wall of the hoop upon its edge and upon the edge of the barrel-sheet.

A pair of hoops 7 are secured on the outer side of the barrel-sheet and both are nailed through the latter to the inner hoop 5, the end hoop 7 extending beyond the edge of the barrel-sheet and of the head and forms an inside supporting-wall for the chime-strip, which is seated without fastening upon the head 8. This chime-supporting wall is outside of the barrel-sheet, and the recessed edge of the head overlapping the edge of the barrel-sheet and of the inner hoop abuts against the inner wall of the inner hoop beneath the chimestrip. This gives a very strong and solid edge that will withstand crushing in upsetting the barrel and leaves the head free to be removed without disturbing the hoops. The head is fastenedon the inner hoop 5 by the chime-strip 8, which is loosely fitted upon and around the edge of the head, and is fastened by hooks 9, of soft strong wire, hookedunder the inner edge of the inner hoop 7 between it and the barrel-sheet and over the end hoop and over and upon the chime-strip 8, fixing it hard in place and firmly holding the head upon its seat on and against the inner wall of the inner hoop. These head-fastening hooks 9 are placed about a foot apart, and the head can be fastened in place by them to ship or store the barrel and removed when the barrel is to be filled without disturbing the hoops. This is done by bending the ends of the hooks out of engagement with the chime-strip and on replacing the head bending the hooks back in engagement with the chime-strip.

The parts may be quickly assembled, and as a new article the barrel is suited for general use in the trade, and is especially rendered convenient in the provision for fastening and unfastening its removable head.

I claim- 1. In a barrel and in combination with the fibrous sheet, an inner hoop, the head resting upon the hoop and the edge of the barrelsheet, an outer pair of hoops, the outer one of the pair extended beyond the end edge of the barrel-sheet and the edge of the head and both nailed to the barrel and to the inner hoop, a chime-strip loose upon the head, and a plurality of hooks engagingthe inner edge of the inner one of the pair of the outer hoops and engaging the outer edge of the end hoop and also engaging and locking the chime-strip against the inner Wall of the outer end hoop and upon the head.

2. In a barrel and in combination with a fibrous sheet, an inner hoop, its outer edge 5 flush with the end edge of the barrel-sheet, the head having a circumferential shoulder on its under side abutting against the inner wall of the inner hoop and overlapping the edges of the said hoop of the end edge of the barrel-sheet, a pair of outer hoops the outer one of the pair extended beyond the edge of the barrel-sheet and the edge of the head and both nailed to the barrel and to the inner hoop, a chime-strip loosely seated upon the head and a plurality of hooks engaging the inner edge of the inner one of the pair of the outer hoops and engaging the outer edge of the end hoop and also engaging and locking the chime-strip against the inner wall of the outer, end hoop and upon the head.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL J. EDMISTON. Witnesses:

JUDsoN EDIE, HORTON A. BARBUR. 

